Armed raid deaths prompt Yard review

Scotland Yard is to review how it runs armed operations involving the Flying Squad after an inquest into the deaths of two robbers shot dead by police in a security van raid.

An inquest jury found that Mark Nunes, 35, and Andrew Markland, 36, were lawfully killed but the Independent Police Complaints Commission said police missed an opportunity to arrest them.

They were shot by marksmen from the Met's CO19 firearms team during a raid on a cash delivery in Chandler's Ford, Hampshire, in September 2007. One of the IPCC recommendations said that the Flying Squad officer investigating the robberies should not be in charge of the armed operation as there was a possibility of conflict of interest.